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Macworld posts "Mac snobbery?" video

by Cory Bohon Mar 9th 2008 at 2:15PM


You may recall us posting about a recent study that found Mac users to be "Snobs." Well, Macworld has taken this study a bit further. Brian Chen, the Associate Editor, went around asking some of the staff at Macworld (including Jason Snell) what they thought about the study. They also went to the Apple store asking wandering customers outside the store what they thought about the study.


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You may recall us posting about a recent study that found Mac users to be "Snobs." Well, Macworld has taken this study a bit further....
 

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Danielle

i enjoy the snob label as well...
and i second @n's comment about snobs and idiots. lol

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April 01 2008 at 2:55 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jennie

that's my little brother! :) haha

March 10 2008 at 7:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Hickeroar

The last line in the video is just great. :-P I would consider myself a mac snob in the fact that when I'm encountered with an anti-mac snob (yes, they're snobs too), I don't even feel like giving their closed mind the energy of an argument.

I was not a mac fan until may of 2007 at which point I actually tried one and decided I loved it after about a month. There was a time where I was a closed minded anti-mac snob as well...and there's just no sense in arguing.

March 10 2008 at 11:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Reeve Schragger

Actually, from most of the Mac users I know they want to change others to "bring them over from the dark side"....snobs generally want to keep their "uniqueness" to themselves to perpetuate their little self important worlds.
I'd have to say that we are therefore generally anti-snobs.

March 10 2008 at 5:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Eli

You know what? We are snobs. That's just the way it is. If you disagree then you're a fanboy, which is slightly worse than being a snob.

March 09 2008 at 10:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
makesense

to say that about 95% of consumers and even greater percentage of businesses are idiots is a rather snobby put down; on the other hand, in view of their ease at being led astray by politicians, perhaps most people are idiots; but, do we want mac heads to really run the world?

March 09 2008 at 7:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
π

If Mac users are snobs, windoze users are idiots.
That probably makes linux and Bsd users... Insane?

March 09 2008 at 7:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Nathan

Damm! That makes me insane and a snob then.

March 10 2008 at 12:11 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mike Raiwet

Well duh! It was made in San Fransico, of course any interviewee is going to be a snob!

March 09 2008 at 3:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Scott

Sure, because someone who can't spell "San Francisco" really should be calling other people snobs.

March 09 2008 at 4:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jfolger

And we all know that if you can't spell you can't tell if someone is a snob. Knob.

March 09 2008 at 9:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Edsel



HA! They should've studied those conceited, know-it-all, Linux users.

I'll still fire-up PC DOS 2.1 or CPM on occasion. Would that make me a snob?

March 09 2008 at 3:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
makesense

as the video concludes, it feels pretty damn cool to be a snob. the man on the street mac zealot noted that snobs choose macs.

March 09 2008 at 2:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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